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The Green Revolution, or the Third Agricultural Revolution, was a period of technology transfer initiatives that saw greatly increased crop yields. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] These changes in agriculture began in developed countries in the early 20th century and spread globally until the late 1980s. [ 3 ]
The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement, 1962–1999 (Hill & Wang, 1993) Shafie, David M. Presidential administration and the environment: Executive leadership in the age of gridlock (Routledge, 2013). Short, C. Brant. Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands: America's Conservation Debate (1989). Soden, Dennis, ed.
Norman Ernest Borlaug (/ ˈ b ɔːr l ɔː ɡ /; March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) [2] was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution.
The green revolution runs on chips–but there is no good way to make the fragile semiconductors ecosystem sustainable in the short term. Rakesh Kumar. December 26, 2023 at 11:55 AM.
Agriculture can have negative effects on biodiversity as well. [5] Organic farming is a multifaceted sustainable agriculture set of practices that can have a lower impact on the environment at a small scale. However, in most cases organic farming results in lower yields in terms of production per unit area. [68]
The average American now lives to be 77.5, up from 76.4 last year (though still a bit short of the all-time high of 78.8, set in 2019). The reversal of that downward trend is primarily due to two ...
Modern industrial agriculture—the "Green Revolution"—was based on the development of synthetic fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides which had devastating consequences for rural wildlife, as documented by American marine biologist, naturalist and environmentalist Rachel Carson in Silent Spring (1962).
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America is a book by New York Times Foreign Affairs columnist Thomas Friedman, proposing that the solutions to global warming and the best method to regain the United States' economic and political stature in the world are to embrace the clean energy and green technology industries.